Monday Roll Call!

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Monday Roll Call!
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Mon, 05-16-2005 - 10:07am

Happy Monday to all!

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Registered: 12-09-2004
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 10:22am

I am here. It was an okay weekend. And it starting off to be an okay day.

Melissa

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Registered: 04-02-2003
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 10:29am

Well.....I stopped taking the abilify because of the rage it caused, but now I'm raged anyway...so I'm going to take the darn thing. So far I've been a rebel. I think it will be a good day....I hope so anyway. I'll keep you posted.

My weekend was awful.......so sick from this discontinuation syndrome, but I knitted and cleaned a tiny bit......knitting seems to be helping me show my creativity lately. Nothin' special, just straight knit and purl, nothing fancy...yet.

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Registered: 11-18-2003
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 1:07pm

i'm here. weekend was rough and today, well not much i can say about it that's good anyway. still waiting to hear back on whether pdoc thinks he can help on the tdoc thing with ins. hope everyone else is doing better.


traci

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 4:02pm
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Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 5:11pm

Weekend was OK. I slept a lot of it. I am feeling just down in the dumps. How do you know when you need your antidepressent changed versus your mood stablizer. I just want to sleep and not be needed by my kids. I want to shop online too, LOL. Which I really can't do. I have not opened any of the moving boxes in a few days and my house is not clean either. What have I been doing? I could not even tell you. I feel asleep before my 10 year old last night and he shut of the tv and went to bed. Man, that feels sucky. I am debating calling pdoc, but to say what. I saw her Tuesday and was OK, but have felt down since the weekend. Can changes happen that quick with the meds? She only upped the effexor, which I still claim does not work anyway. I am not crying but just don't feel like me or close to happy. But I am also not a raging ball of anger either. What is wrong with me. Sorry this got so long. Guess I just needed to vent. Dh is working 2 24 hour shifts in a row so just me and the kids around right now.

Missy

 
 
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Registered: 01-06-2005
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 5:23pm

Hey Kel, well, my weekend was pretty good, matter of fact, last week wan pretty good but all good things must come to an end :( right now im a nervous wreck. you can read my post "missed pdoc appt todat" to get the whole story.

i hope your weeknd was great. summer finally rearing its flowery head!

valerie

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Registered: 10-03-2004
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 8:37pm

My weekend was pretty good. My week is starting off pretty well, too. I'm feeling a little out of sorts but mostly like myself.

Vista


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Registered: 11-19-2004
In reply to: keli003
Mon, 05-16-2005 - 9:36pm

*delurks* for a minute.


everything's going okay, still a bit too high but things are improving.

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Registered: 11-22-2003
In reply to: keli003
Tue, 05-17-2005 - 2:45am

My weekend was okay. I slept through a lot of it. This pregnancy has my internal clock all messed up and I'm fatigued all the time. I called my doc about it, and his nurse called me back only to tell me to talk to my OB. I told her that my OB said to just go with whatever the doc said. She said well, ooookay, I'll call back. No call back. GRRR. She didn't sound very nice, either, on the phone. Oh well. Military people. Gotta expect that sometimes. (I used to be one of them, so I'm allowed to complain. Plus, they're waaaay overbooked around here. 2,500 people for just like 5 docs. Not a good ratio.) Anyway. I'm getting back into my schoolwork. I'm working my bachelors via correspondence course (my school's in Alabama and I'm in South Dakota). The last time I sent anything in was 5/25/04! But I finished my hardest course and got it in the mail tonight! :) YEAH! *party for me* I'm excited to finally be working on it again. I have my first tdoc appointment this morning. New doc. I hope we get along. I've had some real nuts...felt like we should have switched seats, ya know? But it's just the intake today. Not fun. Looooooots to talk about on an intake. And it's tough for the intake because they always ask about psychotic episodes. I'm a medium and a clairvoyant...of course I see and hear things no one else can hear!!! hehe Seriously, that's usually all the doc wants to talk about. But I'm getting better than handling it.


'k. Guess I've dragged this out. Weekend was okay and this week is starting out even better. The old owners of my new home are moving out by Wednesday and we should have the keys sometime this week or early next week and then we can start moving in!!! YEAH!!! (This is a long post b/c otherwise I won't post much at all. I'm getting fairly manic, so if I don't do it all at once it won't get done.) Take care, everyone!

~ Aislinn

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Registered: 02-06-2004
In reply to: keli003
Tue, 05-17-2005 - 5:44pm

Aislinn,

Way to go on getting the course done. I wouldn't worry about how long it's been since you've sent anything in. You're doing it now. That's great! (Besides you could be me and not do any of it for 8 months! I just couldn't do it during the school year). What is your degree in?

We have a major doctor shortage here too. That goes for all kinds of dr's. Pdocs are especially scarce. There is 1 per every 1000 (I think) bipolar I's --not to mention bipolar II or ANY other psychiatric disorder.

I know what you mean about the psychic aspect. I just try to remember there is a difference between psychic and psychotic. I do have psychotic episodes, as well as visions that I would consider psychic. I just don't bring up the psychic stuff. Unfortunatley for me that doesn't mean much because I still am psychotic.

I hate the intake interview too. My first one really sucked because I didn't have a diagnosis so they had to cover everything! My latest one I told them I was being referred for possible bipolar so those where the type of questions that she mainly asked me. Thankfully my interview was on the phone and with the intake coordinator and not the pdoc. Still there are a few things that I have never talked about with anyone and didn't know what to say when she asked me about them. I couldn't lie. I think I just gave a vague answer like not really or something. I think she was asking about childhood sexual abuse or something. I know that I probably need to deal with this some day, but I don't want p or tdoc to focus on nothing else. The only person I have really told about it now is pdoc at school (the intake interview on the phone was for the mental health centre). She said that I can choose whether or not it's something I want to discuss with tdoc or not. I'm thinking great, you finally make me open up about this and I'm going to have to go through it all with someone else. I'm not ready to deal with it now, but when I am I wish it could be with her and not have to start again with someone else. Of, course as we all probably know, pdocs generally aren't the ones to do the therapy, just the meds. So, it's unlikely that that would be a possibility.

Well now who's writing a novel?! Sorry for talking about me :(

Love,
Amanda

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